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the search. She had taken the reins from Fahey several months before King’s departure. A member of the fourth class of women to graduate from Dartmouth, Joyner is the founder of Avid Partners, a marketing firm in San Francisco that works with private equity and venture capital funds. Joyner and Keller began by interviewing six headhunters to find someone who fully understood the Dartmouth culture. “Being self-effacing and humble is a core value at Dartmouth,” says Joyner. They selected Amy de Rham, who was then working as a senior partner in the San Francisco ofﬁce of New York–based Rhodes Associates. Part of her job was to deal with the 20-plus Dartmouth alumni clamoring to return to their alma mater for a preretirement job. “It was a real challenge for me to handle diplomatically,” says de Rham, now a senior client partner at Korn/Ferry International in New York. Another concern was ﬁnding someone who wanted to live in Hanover. “The position would have been more attractive to many candidates if it had been in Boston,” she adds. Russ did not emerge as the leading candidate until late in the process. As a born and bred Californian working in the high-proﬁle treasurer’s role at the enormous state university system, he was not part of the East Coast, Ivy League network. In the ﬁnal rounds the board narrowed the search to two candidates. The other ﬁnalist was the director of a large, aggressively managed corporate pension fund. “The biggest question I had for David was, ‘Why in the world would you pick up and move from California to Hanover, New Hampshire?’” recalls Carson. “It was a huge life change.” In the end Dartmouth trustees were won over by Russ’s analytical mind, quantitative skills, endowment experience and comparative youth. But with no connection to Dartmouth, Russ was far from a shoo-in. “I had to ﬁght for David,” says Tuck finance professor Kent Womack, who served on the search committee alongside Joyner, Keller and Paul Olsen, a 1981 Tuck grad and head of the Dartmouth real estate office since 1988. “If there hadn’t been a little extra effort — people twisting arms to be okay with outsiders — it might not have happened.” The move suited Russ’s wife. She has found a position as a clinical regulatory and compliance consultant in the clinical trials ofﬁce at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in nearby Lebanon, New Hampshire. DARTMOUTH HAS A LONG history of active alumni involvement going back to 1819, when Daniel Webster defended the college before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case brought against it by the New Hampshire state legis- Unique liquidity. Start-up services. Commission management. Advanced algorithms and analytics. not a hedgehold name You may not think ITG when you think hedge funds. But the fact is, we've been serving many of the top hedge fund managers for over 20 years. We deliver innovative technology, aggregated liquidity, and a broad range of customizable solutions. Add ITG to your broker mix. You'll appreciate our confidential, broker-neutral approach. For more information, please visit w.itg.com/hedge or contact us at hedge@itg.com or 800.858.4907. END-TO-END TRADING SOLUTIONS™ PRE-TRADE TRADE P O S T- T R A D E Portfolio Management, Optimization, & Compliance Pre-Trade Analytics Execution, Management, & Connectivity Algorithmic Trading POSIT ® Crossing Measurement & Analytics Post-Trade Processing www.itg.com ©2007 Investment Technology Group, Inc., member NASD, SIPC. 51507-56797 http://w.itg.com/hedge http://www.itg.com http://www.itg.com

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Institutional Investor's Alpha Magazine - October 2007 Contents Letter from the Editor Longs & Shorts Pension Corner: Applied Knowledge The Good Guys: Autism Advocate Interview: Nerves of Steel Cover Story: Ivy League Education Alpha Awards: Top Service Providers: Trying Times Strategies: Passage to India Profile: The Oracle of Irvine Alpha Bytes: Futurama Research Center: Funds of Funds 50 Unhedged: Commentary: Crisis? What Crisis?

Institutional Investor's Alpha Magazine - October 2007

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